Jacqueline Assar

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Experience & Education

  • Presidential Leadership Scholars

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  • ACM SIGGRAPH Graphic

    Juror

    ACM SIGGRAPH

    - Present 3 years 5 months

  • Reality Virtually Hackathon Graphic

    Judge

    Reality Virtually Hackathon

    - Present 5 years 7 months

    Sponsored two prizes (“Best Use of VR/AR for Accessibility” and “People’s Choice Award”) and participated as a Final Round Judge.

  • Games for Change Graphic

    Conference Speaker, VR/AR

    Games for Change

    - Present 7 years 2 months

Projects

  • SYKY Collective

    Digital fashion designer selected for the inaugural class of the SYKY Collective. My designs combine generative AI with realtime data inputs such as music and biometric data.

  • DiscoverAR

    - Present

    Won the 1st place award presented by Discover Global Network at the Virtual2Reality Hackathon. Developed an e-commerce augmented reality (AR) application using the Microsoft Hololens that utilizes image recognition to be able to identify and purchase products with a single gesture. Presented on stage and demoed the project at the Innovation Project 2017 conference at Harvard University.

    Technologies used: Unity3D, C#, Vuforia, AWS / Amazon Linux, NodeJS, DynamoDB

    Other creators

  • TreeHouse by KidCityVR

    TreeHouse is an innovative educational platform that enables children and adults to play, learn, and explore together in virtual reality. TreeHouse was dreamed up and created at the largest virtual reality hackathon "Reality, Virtually", sponsored by the MIT Media Lab.

    In TreeHouse, children are able to play and learn through games with parents who remotely access the virtual world through their mobile device, desktop, or head-mounted device and interact in…

    TreeHouse is an innovative educational platform that enables children and adults to play, learn, and explore together in virtual reality. TreeHouse was dreamed up and created at the largest virtual reality hackathon "Reality, Virtually", sponsored by the MIT Media Lab.

    In TreeHouse, children are able to play and learn through games with parents who remotely access the virtual world through their mobile device, desktop, or head-mounted device and interact in real-time.

    Awards:
    Best VR Hack - Samsung Global Innovation Center
    Best HTC Vive Hack - HTC Vive

    Other creators
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  • Aquasol Aquaponics

    Aquasol Aquaponics was a student-led project which promoted the use of aquaponics in urban slums to give struggling families easier access to healthy and locally grown fresh produce. We collaborated with Sarah Lawrence College and The Science Barge, a sustainable urban farm in Yonkers, New York.

    Other creators
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Honors & Awards

  • 2020 Oculus Launch Pad Winner

    Facebook

    Received a $25k grant for Potluck, a social VR cooking application. Potluck gives chefs a platform to become the protagonists of their own uniquely human stories. Each chef’s cooking lesson tells food stories about who they are, what matters to them and their culture.

  • Violet Society Fellow

    Violet Society

    Selected to participate in the Violet Society Fellowship - a program for female founders.

  • Best Use of Merge VR/AR

    MIT Reality Virtually Hackathon

    Won "Best Use of Merge VR/AR" for Kolideo, an augmented reality app for the Merge Cube that runs realtime analytics on educational puzzles to analyze student's problem solving journeys using machine vision.

  • SH//FT Spotlight

    SH//FT & Microsoft

    Selected for a SH//FT Spotlight for HoloPay, a retail application developed for the Microsoft HoloLens.

  • Georgetown Business School Startup Hoyas Competition Winner

    Georgetown University

  • Virtual2Reality Challenge Grand Prize Winner

    Discover Global

    Awarded the $10,000 Grand Prize at the Virtual2Reality hackathon from Discover Global for developing a custom payment and personalized marketing application for the Microsoft HoloLens.

    http://www.innovationproject.com/virtual-2-reality-challenge/

  • Best Vive Hack

    HTC

    Won "Best Vive Hack " from HTC at the MIT Media Lab Reality Virtually Hackathon.

    http://www.networkworld.com/article/3130605/events/reality-virtually-sets-record-for-largest-arvr-hackathon.html

  • Grand Prize Winner

    Samsung Global Innovation Center

    Won "Best VR Hack" from the Samsung Global Innovation Center at the MIT Media Lab Reality Virtually Hackathon.

    http://www.networkworld.com/article/3130605/events/reality-virtually-sets-record-for-largest-arvr-hackathon.html

  • James L McGaugh Excellence in Research Award

    UC Irvine

    Received 2013 James L McGaugh Excellence in Research Award for student research conducted on Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory.

  • 2012 Davis Projects for Peace Award

    Davis Projects for Peace

    Received 2012 Davis Projects for Peace Fellowship which included a $10,000 grant for founding Prep for Peace: a summer college preparatory program for underserved youth in Yonkers, NY that ran from 2012-2013 before being absorbed into a larger community program.

    http://www.davisprojectsforpeace.org/media/view/2138

  • RISE Finalist

    University of Chicago

    Worldwide finalist in the "RISE (Road to Innovative Social Entrepreneurship) Pakistan" competition which was held at the University of Chicago.

    https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/news-events/archived/2010-2011/2011-05-19-sarah-lawrence-college-students-among-finalists-in-rise-pakistan-competition-nr.html

  • Larry Zalkin Human Rights Scholarship

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    Received Larry Zalkin Human Rights Scholarship for academic achievement and community service.

    http://archive.boston.com/yourtown/news/newton/2010/06/from_the_newtonite_class_of_20.html

Languages

  • English

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  • Farsi

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  • French

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